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Lady luck has always seemed to smile on Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière de Laborde. Born into the wealthy De Wendel family, inheritors of an 18th century iron and steel dynasty, Seillière rose effortlessly through the ranks of France's ruling élite. After taking his degree from the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration, he launched a promising diplomatic career, served on the staffs of two Prime Ministers and seemed destined for a privileged life in the upper echelons of the French civil service...
...without free and fair elections. Totalitarianism won't deliver the economic goods; the fate of the Soviet Union proved that. But at a certain level of development, your economy can grow even if your political arrangements remain autocratic. In that case, you may find, however - as the ruling élite in Mexico did - that economic reform increases popular pressure for governments that are truly accountable. (Wouldn't it be nice to see the cables that the Chinese embassy in Mexico City sends back to Beijing?) And if you live in a country that has all the appurtenances of genuine democracy...
...accepted into Japan's most élite high school, a Yokohoma prep school affiliated with prestigious Keio University. To facilitate Obara's entry to the school his father purchased the Den'en Chofu mansion and sent the boy to live there with a maid. When Obara was 17, his father died, leaving holdings in Tokyo and Osaka...
...mater of newly elected Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi) with degrees in politics and law, become a naturalized Japanese citizen and legally changed his name to Obara. Once he had expunged his Korean lineage, Obara, with his wealth and his educational background, could have entered the nation's ruling élite, becoming, perhaps, a top bureaucrat or corporate chieftain. Instead he became a man of his times, leading a desultory, undistinguished existence, punctuated by his disastrous forays into real estate speculation. He formed an investment company, Plant, in 1988, relatively late in the bubble cycle. When the economy collapsed, nearly taking...
Surprisingly, comic-genius Myers is the weakest link in the packed cast. Shrek, who sounds sort of like Fat Bastard Lite, has few good lines, and it is Donkey who steals the show. In what may be Murphy's funniest role since The Nutty Professor (or Metro, but that was more of an unintentional thing), Donkey prances around the screen, firing off a stream of surprisingly funny jokes and comments. Lithgow also deserves praise and laughs for his vocals on Farquaad, who is perhaps the first on-screen character ever on screen to have computer-animated chest hair...